Scientific Explanation

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

1935 • 15,430 citations

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

1963 • 10,011 citations

The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

1959 • 7,547 citations

An introduction to cybernetics

1956 • 7,117 citations

Fact, Fiction, and Forecast.

1955 • 4,292 citations

The Scientific Image

1980 • 4,033 citations

Aspects of Scientific Explanation.

1966 • 3,384 citations

Studies in the Logic of Explanation

1948 • 2,871 citations

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

1923 • 2,653 citations

The feynman lectures on physics

1967 • 2,487 citations

An Essay concerning Human Understanding

1924 • 2,390 citations

Logical Foundations of Probability.

1951 • 2,344 citations

Causation

1973 • 1,654 citations

Explanation and Understanding

1972 • 1,416 citations

The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation.

1961 • 1,325 citations

A Probabilistic Theory of Causality.

1972 • 1,277 citations

The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud

1938 • 1,204 citations

Explanation and Scientific Understanding

1974 • 1,203 citations

Four Decades of Scientific Explanation

2006 • 1,177 citations

A philosophical essay on probabilities

1952 • 1,145 citations

The Philosophy of Space and Time

1959 • 1,008 citations

Explanatory Unification

1981 • 1,004 citations

ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD

2009 • 843 citations

A Primer on Determinism

1986 • 812 citations

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

1987 • 783 citations

Possible gravitational microlensing of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud

1993 • 694 citations

An archaeological perspective

1972 • 648 citations

Readings in the Philosophy of Science

1954 • 648 citations

Mathematical Theory of Probability and Statistics

1964 • 639 citations

Evidence for gravitational microlensing by dark objects in the Galactic halo

1993 • 596 citations

Is the Moon There When Nobody Looks? Reality and the Quantum Theory

1985 • 575 citations

Mesoamerica: The Evolution of a Civilization

1968 • 538 citations

Scientific Explanation

1954 • 516 citations

Probabilistic Causality

1991 • 502 citations

Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel

1969 • 486 citations

Teleological Explanations

1976 • 485 citations

On the concept of a random sequence

1940 • 400 citations

Probleme und Resultate der Wissenschaftstheorie und analytischen Philosophie

1974 • 395 citations

Understanding Scientific Reasoning

1983 • 394 citations

Causation and the flow of energy

1979 • 385 citations

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

1965 • 362 citations

Explanation and Prediction in Evolutionary Theory

1959 • 360 citations

Wesley Salmon's Process Theory of Causality and the Conserved Quantity Theory

1992 • 349 citations

Causality Without Counterfactuals

1994 • 348 citations

Probability, explanation, and information

1981 • 340 citations

The Nature and Function of Scientific Theories

1971 • 335 citations

Magic, Faith and Healing.

1965 • 316 citations

Testing Scientific Theories

1984 • 293 citations

A Deductive-Nomological Model of Probabilistic Explanation

1978 • 287 citations

Causality and Explanation: A Reply to Two Critiques

1997 • 262 citations

Concepts, Theories, and the Mind-Body Problem.

1959 • 260 citations

The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic.

1966 • 252 citations

A CAUSAL CALCULUS (I)

1961 • 240 citations

Man, Culture, and Society

1957 • 233 citations

Seven clues to the origin of life

1985 • 232 citations

Quantum Mysteries for Anyone

1981 • 230 citations

Invitation to Archaeology

1987 • 221 citations

Foundations of Space-Time Theories.

1980 • 216 citations

Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science

1954 • 210 citations

Why Propensities Cannot be Probabilities

1985 • 207 citations

Two Notes on the Probabilistic Approach to Causality

1976 • 202 citations

Genes that Violate Mendel's Rules

1979 • 196 citations

Detection of microvariability for BL Lacertae objects

1989 • 196 citations

Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories

1994 • 191 citations

Van Fraassen on Explanation

1987 • 175 citations

Discussion: Salmon on Explanatory Relevance

1995 • 170 citations

A generalized probabilistic theory of causal relevance

1993 • 170 citations

The Problem of Inductive Logic

1968 • 167 citations

Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Theory

1979 • 156 citations

Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist

1979 • 153 citations

Why Ask, "Why?"? An Inquiry concerning Scientific Explanation

1978 • 150 citations

Scientific Knowledge

1981 • 146 citations

Archaeology as Behavioral Science¹

1975 • 140 citations

Causality and Conserved Quantities: A Reply to Salmon

1995 • 140 citations

Causation, Chance and Credence

1988 • 137 citations

The astronomy and astrophysics encyclopedia

1992 • 136 citations

The Manipulation of Genes

1975 • 131 citations

Explanation, Conjunction, and Unification

1976 • 130 citations

Research and theory in current archeology

1973 • 130 citations

Investigation of Ultrafast Phenomena in the Femtosecond Time Domain

1986 • 125 citations

Aspekte wissenschaftlicher Erklärung

1977 • 124 citations

Archaeology by Experiment

1976 • 113 citations

Two Approaches to Explanation

1985 • 113 citations

Newtonianism, reductionism and the art of congressional testimony

1987 • 112 citations

Upper Pleistocene Radiocarbon-Dated Artefacts from the Northern Yukon

1973 • 110 citations

Detection of high-energy gamma-ray emission from the BL Lacertae object Markarian 421 by the EGRET telescope on the Compton Observatory

1992 • 101 citations

Conjunctivitis

1970 • 97 citations

Causation as Explanation

1975 • 95 citations

In Defense of a Probabilistic Theory of Causality

1978 • 85 citations

Quasi-Stellar Diameters and Intensity Fluctuations

1964 • 84 citations

A critique of Suppes' theory of probabilistic causality

1981 • 84 citations

EXPLANATION, PREDICTION AND ABSTRACTION

1957 • 83 citations

The Justification of Inductive Rules of Inference

1968 • 83 citations

ON PREDICTION AND EXPLANATION

1958 • 82 citations

Salmon on Explanation

1985 • 81 citations

The Archeology of Alaska and the Peopling of America

1980 • 80 citations

A single case propensity theory of explanation

1974 • 80 citations

Dispositional Probabilities

1971 • 79 citations

Physics in My Generation

1969 • 76 citations

Hempel's ambiguity

1974 • 76 citations

Explanation in Social Science: A System Paradigm.

1969 • 76 citations

Alternative Models of Scientific Explanation

1979 • 74 citations

An “At-At” Theory of Causal Influence

1977 • 72 citations

Laws, Systems, and Research Designs: A Discussion of Explanation in Archaeology

1972 • 72 citations

The limits of reductionism

1988 • 72 citations

On the Symmetry Between Explanation and Prediction

1959 • 71 citations

Quasars, Blazars, and Gamma Rays

1992 • 70 citations

Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and his System of the World

1935 • 69 citations

Rational Prediction

1981 • 69 citations

Temporally-Asymmetric Principles, Parity between Explanation and Prediction, and Mechanism Versus Teleology

1962 • 63 citations

Vicissitudes and Overkill: The Development of Explanations of Pleistocene Extinctions

1980 • 62 citations

You Just Don??t Understand

1992 • 61 citations

Conflicting Conceptions of Scientific Explanation

1985 • 60 citations

The Status of Prior Probabilities in Statistical Explanation

1965 • 55 citations

On the historical explanation of unique events

1975 • 53 citations

Concerning a probabilistic theory of causation adequate for the causal theory of time

1977 • 52 citations

Aleatory explanations

1981 • 52 citations

The Galactic Center: Is It a Massive Black Hole?

1986 • 52 citations

A world of dispositions

1977 • 50 citations

The Place of the Explanation of Particular Facts in Science

1971 • 49 citations

An empiricist defence of the causal account of explanation

1992 • 49 citations

Probable explanation

1976 • 48 citations

Causal propensities: Statistical causality vs. aleatory causality

1990 • 48 citations

Causal Theories and Causal Overdetermination

1974 • 47 citations

Statistical Models of Causal Relations

1977 • 46 citations

Statistical Explanation vs. Statistical Inference

2017 • 46 citations

Statistical Explanation

1972 • 45 citations

THE PROBLEM OF INFINITY CONSIDERED HISTORICALLY

2009 • 45 citations

The Discovery of a Gravitational Lens

1980 • 43 citations

Size limits on fluctuating astronomical sources

1977 • 42 citations

Comments on ?Hempel's ambiguity? by J. Alberto Coffa

1974 • 42 citations

Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources

1963 • 42 citations

On Transmitted Information as a Measure of Explanatory Power

1978 • 39 citations

The Likeness of Lawlikeness

1976 • 39 citations

Quasars at 25

1986 • 38 citations

The Quasar 3C 273

1991 • 38 citations

A probabilistic theory of second order causation

1996 • 38 citations

Nomic Dependence and Causation

1992 • 37 citations

Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist

1995 • 37 citations

A Hole in the Milky Way

1982 • 36 citations

Statistical Explanations

1974 • 36 citations

Comets, Pollen and Dreams: Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation

1982 • 35 citations

Statistical relevance and explanatory classification

1976 • 35 citations

Fluctuating Brightness of Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources

1964 • 35 citations

The Interpretation of Dreams

1983 • 35 citations

The limits of reductionism

1988 • 34 citations

Explanation and Information

2017 • 33 citations

What's Wrong with Salmon's History: The Third Decade

1992 • 33 citations

BL Lacertae Objects

1977 • 32 citations

X-ray outbursts in our galaxy

1977 • 32 citations

Gamma-ray power from 3C279

1992 • 32 citations

John Jones's Pregnancy: Some Comments on the Statistical‐Relevance Model of Scientific Explanation

1980 • 32 citations

The Ode Dedicated to Newton by Edmund Halley

2023 • 31 citations

Ignition of X-ray flares

1992 • 31 citations

Observational evidence for black holes

1985 • 31 citations

A Size Limit for Uniformly-Pulsating Sources of Electromagnetic Radiation

1979 • 31 citations

Gamma-Ray Bursters

1985 • 23 citations

Space, time and gravitation

2014 • 18 citations

The Pragmatics of Explanation

2014 • 16 citations